Immortal Banquet at the Ninefold Heaven Palace, Jade Offerings and Incense Burning at Taiyi Palace

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The chimes and stone bells rang out from the Ninefold Heaven Palace, gradually spreading across the Nine Heavens, echoing through east, west, south, and north, reaching throughout the Three Realms Great Thousand World.

With this succession of chimes and bells, the immortals, gods, demons, and Buddhas of the Three Realms Great Thousand World came to a realization: the time for the Peixiang Palace immortal banquet had arrived.

In the hazy distance, four ethereal gateways seemed to materialize amid the clouds in the east, west, south, and north of the Three Realms Great Thousand World.

The gateways were entirely gilded, dragons coiling around phoenixes, standing ten thousand zhang tall. Auspicious mist and rosy radiance filled both sides, while palace walls stretched on beyond sight. Behind them, jade towers and jeweled halls, immortal palaces and divine temples could vaguely be seen. Beneath the gates lay countless jade steps, with Heavenly Soldiers and Generals arrayed along either side. Mighty warriors beat drums, heavenly soldiers played music, and billions of rays of heavenly light spilled across every corner of the mortal world, as though they meant to guide mortals into Heaven.

These were the Four Heavenly Gates of east, west, south, and north.

The Heavenly Gates ordinarily would not manifest directly before mortal eyes. Let alone common mortals—even true immortals of East Heaven and venerables of West Heaven could scarcely glimpse the gates' true forms unless they were within the Heavenly Court. One had to pass through winds, thunder, and fire, cross the layers of void currents, and see the four Heavenly Gates suspended beneath the sea of stars. Even then, one had to traverse an unknown number of billions upon billions of miles to reach them.

To enter a Heavenly Gate directly, only the four continents of east, west, south,